Horse-collar pad



(No Model.)

B. L. MQGLAIN.

HORSECOLLAR PAD, No. 321,622. Ifa ten te'd July 7, 1885'.

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EDXVARD L. MOCLAIN, OF GREENFIELD, OHlO.

HORSE-COLLAR PAD.

(IBPEfiIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 321,622, dated July7, 1885.

Applicatii n filed July 9, 1884.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD L. McOLAiN, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Greenfield, in the'county of Highland and State ofOhio, have invented anew and useful HorseColl-ar Pad, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to a device for adjustably attaching a pad toahorse-collar.

The object of my invention is to provide a means for scouring a flexiblepiece, which is attached to the pad and is lapped around the fore rollof the collar and placed under the hame, for the purpose of ad j usiably attaching a pad to a collar whereby the said flexible piece may bereadily adjusted, and when adjusted may remain secured, and whereby theslack in the flexible piece may be automatically taken up in theoperation of fastening the hame to the collar.

Figure 1 shows in crosssection a horsecollar in place upon a collar-pad,and the ilexible piece and attachment for securing the pad to thecollar, and also the hame. Fig. 2 shows an edge view of the improvement,and Fig. 3 a top or side view of the same.

The same letters or numbers designate the same parts in all of thefigures.

a is the fore roll, and I) the back roll or body of the collar. G is thefore roll, d the baclr. roll, and E the body of the pad.

There is no limitation to the kind of pad with which my improved fastening device may be used.

The flexible piece 1, which laps around the fore roll of the collar, maybe of any suitable flexible material, as the material of which thepad-body is made, or leather, and it may be attached to the pad in anysuitable manner, as by sewing or riveting, and at any convenientsuitableplace, as to the upper side of the fore roll of the pad, or at or nearthejuncture 2 of the rollwith the body of the pad.

The device which serves to draw the flexible piece 1 taut and sungagainst the fore roll of the collar and to secure the same when the hemeis in place, is shown at 3. It is a binding-spring, consisting of apiece of flat elastic metal having two curved or projecting portions, 0'and s, uniting at an intervening angle (No model.)

or short curve, and adapted to be suitably attached to t-he flexiblepiece 1, as by sewing or by means of rivets, as at l. The flexible piece1 may be fastened to the front part, 1', only of the bindingspring 3; orit may be ex tended under the whole length of the spring, and may beattached thereto by the rivets 5 also; or itmay extend beyond the springinto a projection, 6, which may serve the lingers as a means ofconveniently gripping the device in attaching or adjusting it.

The curvature 1' o s of the binding spring 3 is made to correspond inposition to the underlying curvature of the cross'section of the collarat the place of attachment, but the said curvatures are not so great asthe corresponding curvatures of the collar, so that when the spring 3 ismerely laid in place upon the collar it does not fit down upon thelatter and into the depression at the juncture of the roll a with thebody b, but rests thereon. as shown in Fig. 1. Now, when the hanle 7 isdrawn into the said depression in being fastened to the collar, it movesinward, as indicated by the arrow 8, and presses the center i; of thespring 3 down into the depression and sung against the collar. Thisbending of the spring 3 of course causes the curved portions 1' and s todraw into the depression, and, consequently, the flexible piece 1, towhich the part r is at tached, is drawn snugly upon and around the foreroll, a, of the collar, and hence'secures the pad firmly to the collar.The curves r and s of the spring 3, by being bound upon and against theroll a and the body I) of the collar by the hanle '7, are prevented frombeing displaced so long as the hame 7 remains secured to the collar. Assoon as the hame is disengaged from the collar, the elasticity of thespring 3 causes it to spring away from its constrained position, andhence to automatically disengage the pad from the collar the instant thehame is loosened therefrom.

In attaching a pad provided with this fastening device to a collar, thepad may be first placed upon the horses neck and then the collar placedupon the pad; or the pad may be placed within the collar and both put onthe horses neck at the same time.

hen the hames are to be attached, the

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springs 3 or the hand-pieces 6 are taken in thefingers and the flexiblepieces 3 are drawn around the fore rolls, a, of the collar and the hamesare pressed against the springs and into the depressions v, and are thenfirmly secured to the collar.

The metallic portion 3 of the fastening de vice (illustrated in thefigures) may be made of elastic wire bent into curves or angles likethose r a s in the figures, and outside of these essential features mayhave any other shape or curves or arrangements which an artizan maydesire to give it for the purpose of attaching' it and adapting it topurposes herein set forth.

The piece 1, or another piece, 6, attached to the bindingspring 3, maybe made long enough to reach around the back roll, I), of the collar andbe buckled or hooked to the back thereto, as at the positions 11 or 12,and as indicated by the dotted lines 10. \Vhen the hame is fastened tothe collar, it will press the metal piece 3 into the depression beneaththe harne and tighten the flexible portions which lap around thecollarrolls, the same as above.

I clai1n- The combination, with a collar-pad, of the flexiblebindingstrip l, the elastic metallic \Vitnesses:

A. M. MAOKERLEY, CLAYTON HAINEs.

